Earlier this week, John Cloninger one of the authors on rcnj.org, reported that his web site was displaying SQL errors when he attempted to post a response to a posted story. Eventually, we determined that users of sites running Slash 0.4 with Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 were experiencing this problem if they attempted to post comments that were more than 2k in length. As far as we can tell, the problem never affected sites running Sybase 11.3.x and later.

We have modified the SQL logic in comments.pl and this appears to have fixed the problem. This should result in a better user experience on the following public Web Sites: